FAULKNER, WILLIAM

Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Light in August; and Pylon

NY: The Library of America, 1985. 0940450267. First Edition Thus. Sixth Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0940450267. Publisher's full dark red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and on black label on spine, printed endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. "Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America's finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction. As I Lay Dying (1930) is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peasant family in conflict. It presents the conscious, unconscious, and sometimes hallucinatory impressions of the husband, daughter, and four sons of Addie Bundren, the long-suffering matriarch of her rural Mississippi clan, as the family marches her body through fire and flood to its grave in town. Sanctuary (1931) is a novel of sex and social class, of collapsed gentility and amoral justice, that moves from the back roads of Mississippi and the fleshpots of Memphis to the courthouse of Jefferson and the appalling spectacle of popular vengeance. With its fascinating portraits of Popeye, a sadistic gangster and rapist, and Temple Drake, a debutante with an affinity for evil, it offers a horrific and sometimes comically macabre vision of modern life. Light in August (1932) incorporates Faulkner's religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life. The guileless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; the disgraced minister Gail Hightower, who dreams of Confederate cavalry charges; Byron Bunch, who thought working Saturdays would keep a man out of trouble, and the desperate, enigmatic Joe Christmas, consumed by his mixed ancestry all find their lives entangled in the inexorable succession of love, birth, and death. Pylon (1935), a tale of barnstorming aviators in the carnival atmosphere of an air show in a southern city, examines the bonds of desire and loyalty among three men and a woman, all characters without a past. Dramatizing what, in accepting his Nobel Prize, Faulkner called "the human heart in conflict with itself," it illustrates how he became one of the great humanists of twentieth-century literature. The Library of America edition of Faulkner's work publishes, for the first time, new, corrected texts of these four works. Manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, and published editions have been collated to produce versions that are free of the changes introduced by the original editors and that are faithful to Faulkner s intentions.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows only the slightest shelf-wear. AS NEW/NEAR FINE.. The Library of America Series. Vol. 25. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (xiv), 1034, (4) pp. As New in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 28143

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FAULKNER, WILLIAM

Pylon

New York, Signet Book. 1951, First Thus. (ISBN: -) Pocket, 5c5. 189 pag. Good.

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Book number: 044506

Catalogue: Engelstalige Literatuur

Faulkner, William (1897-1962)

Pylon : a Novel

New York. H. Smith And R. Haas. Inc. 1935. First Edition. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned as with age and the block has dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Scans on request. ; 315 pages; Description: 315 p. 19 cm. Stated 1st printing.

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Book number: 88619

FAULKNER, WILLIAM.

Pylon. [ SIGNED ]

New York, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First limited signed edition. 20 x 14 cm. Bound with blue cloth corners and spine stamped in silver and metallic silver-coated paper-covered boards. Top edge also silver. With a frontispiece facsimile of a page of manuscript not included in the trade edition. Copy no 140 of only 310 copies SIGNED by Faulkner on colophon page. Spine faded as customary with this title, the silver lettering still good readable.

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Book number: 45600

Keywords: ; Bijzonder / Special English/American literature Genummerd / Numbered Gesigneerd / Signed

Faulkner, William

Pylon

Albatross 1935. Taschenbuch guter altersbedingter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag gebraucht - gut

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Book number: BU128055

Catalogue: Romane, Erzählungen, Geschichten, Kurzgeschichten, Berichte

Faulkner, William

Pylon

New York, Random House, 1967. First Printing. Hardcover. First Modern Library edition. Green cloth stamped in gold on the spine. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Basis for the 1957 movie featuring Rock Hudson and Robert Stack. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 17555

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE, AIRPLANES, BARNSTORMERS, NEW ORLEANS, Movie Tie-in

FAULKNER, WILLIAM

Pylon

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas Inc, 1935. 2nd impression. Brown hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 315pp.. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Edge-block slightly foxed .

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Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction First Editions

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)

Pylon

New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (February, 1935, on copyright page), in First Issue dust jacket (with correct titles listed on rear panel), filmed in 1957 as The Tarnished Angels. 8vo: 315,[1]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's cobalt-blue V-cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold within horizontal black band, top edge stained black; pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.50. Near Fine or better (flaking to spine lettering), in bright, Near Fine or better jacket (spine head rubbed and nicked, slight loss to front flap fold). Provenance: from the collection (now housed at the University of Central Florida Libraries) of bibliophiles Walter and Dorothy Donnelly, with their label on front paste down. Petersen A17.1a. Man Working 174. Fargnoli, pp. 211-16. Agnew, p. 10. Hanna 1163. In the early 1930s, made temporarily affluent by publication of Sanctuary and by Hollywood, Faulkner took up flying, bought a Waco cabin aircraft, and flew it, in February 1934, to the dedication of Shushan Airport in New Orleans. The trip supplied "much of the material for Pylon, the novel about racing and barnstorming pilots that he published in 1935. Having given the Waco to his youngest brother, Dean, and encouraged him to become a professional pilot, Faulkner was both grief- and guilt-stricken when Dean crashed and died in the plane later in 1935 . " (Encyclopedia Britannica) According to The Literary Encyclopedia, Pylon "has many failings, but did offer Faulkner a chance to try out some of the techniques he perfected in Absalom, Absalom!, which is widely considered his greatest achievement." In fact, Faulkner claims to have written Pylon to get away from writing Absalom (Fargnoli, p. 213). The Tarnished Angels, about an airplane contest in New Orleans during Mardis Gras, starred Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, and Dorothy Malone, and while Pylon may be a minor novel, of all the films made out of Faulkner's books, Tarnished Angels is the best. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.

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Book number: BB0094

Catalogue: MODERN FIRSTS

Faulkner, William

Pylon

New York, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. 0 pp. Hard Bound. Stated "First Printing." Very good book with light foxing to a few pages, mainly at the beginning and end, offsetting to front endpaper due to bookplate of former owner on front pastedown, narrow band of tanning to gutters of pastedown, mild wear to board and spine extremities. Pages are bright and there are no markings. Dust jacket has 5" closed tear stating at bottom of front fold, jagged 3" surface tear and small area of abrasion to front, 3" closed tear down middle of spine of dj,, tanning to flap edges, 2 creases to bottom corner of front flap, stain to back of dj, and minor wear along edges. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: b33483

William Faulkner

Pylon

London, Chatto & Windus, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of one of William Faulkner's only novel not set in Yoknapatawpha County, the scarce first impression with publisher's adverts and a dustwrapper. The first U.K. edition, first impression, of this work, with four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'Pylon' follows a group of barnstormers in New Valois, a fictionalised version of New Orleans. The group live only a step or two ahead of destitution, and live shockingly according to the societal expectations of the time.Written by the popular twentieth century American author William Faulkner.The 1957 film 'The Tarnished Angels' starring Rock Hudson was based off this novel.Newspaper review of this novel loosely inserted. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, with faint tidemarks and discolouration to the front board. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Front hinge is a little strained but remains firm. A few odd spots to the endpapers. Dustwrapper with a tidemark, a little heavier to the reverse. Dustwrapper with a little edgewear, with a chip to the tail of the spine. A little discolouration and some spots to the dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 753P19

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Pylon william faulkner yoknapatawpha county new orleans william faulkner america the tarnished angels None

FAULKNER, WILLIAM; BLOTNER, JOSEPH [EDITOR]; POLK, NOEL [EDITOR];

William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America)

Library of America, 1985-11-30. hardcover. Brand new first printing slip cased edition no jacket as issued. Please email for photos.. Collectible: Like New .

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Book number: 113791

FAULKNER WILLIAM

Pylon

London, Chatto & Windus. 1935, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library, DW has peice missing from head of spine losing all of the title but authors name is present, browned backstrip, minor chipping or splitting to spine ends and corners, front and rear panels and fold in flaps complete and intact, not price clipped, a little offset foxing to feps, spine titling to book cloth has flaked so only about 50% of the white is still present, corners slightly bumped, 4 digit ink number to top corner of fep, book club stamp with a cancellation stamp over this to the middle of the title page under authors name, a little minor foxing to margins and closed edges, a tidy copy almost VG of a rare modern first, 319pp + (4) pp adverts, top edge red, bottom edge untrimmed, scarce UK issue of 2900 copies, FIRST EDITION AND FIRST STATE. Very Good/Good.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 012668

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: American Modern Fiction First Edition Literature British Edition Pylon Rare